Why is casual racism/sexism more accepted in video games than other forms of media (these days)?

Didn't see that coming.

idk which dude this is, but this vid from the MDE people made it to contrlolz i think?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5qXMrAd_G4

a classic

repeatedly threatening to kill someone is a pretty funny prank

dude was only funny to the gamergate trolls who try to push others into becoming more unhinged, not the quote-unquote gamergate purists, those harassed by gamergate, or anyone outside of the world of gamergate

so in reality he is completely indistinguishable from an unhinged person capable of violence

Let's hope he is making the most out of his 'infamy' at stealing and wrecking his mother's car. LOL

I don't see how that is a 'character' of any sort he clearly isn't self aware about the situation in any way. He is claiming being victimized by one woman (has he ever met her?) while literally stealing and destroying the property of another (his mom).

biddle hints they could be full of shit with this turn of events

http://internet.gawker.com/psychopath-who-harassed-brianna-wu-just-kidding-1687695961

nobody's really asked what the deal is with the car

I would imagine the more famous he gets the more trolls he is going to have to deal with, which is silver lining.

Adam, did you read the earlier article goole linked? Dude claims he's playing a character that hates Briana Wu, he doesn't care either way, and he's mocking gamergaters by acting by a really unhinged one.

So instead of a completely unhinged person who is making threats, he is an idiot who is less unhinged, doesn't take the personhood of any of these people seriously, and is making threats in character because he thinks it's funny.

Or so he claims?

Tbh I'm trying not to pay attention to these sorts of trolls, i dont care if he is doing it ironically or has some clever twist on it, it's just an idiot contributing more noise into an already incoherent mess.

I saw Tom Green when I was a teenager, I thought it was funny for a month and moved on

basically saying Biddle's article completely otm

this is all starting to remind me of my parents idiot ex-neighbor. he was on hold for a while after calling some company and as soon as he was able to talk to a representative, he made some "joke" to the effect of "Well, you wouldn't have had me on hold so long if I told you I put anthrax in your ventilation system."

This was around 2002. Said neighbor then proceeded to do some time in the federal penitentiary.

holy shit

The prison is part of the joke, it's a long-con.

oh boy I never actually googled that
http://njlaw.rutgers.edu/collections/resource.org/fed_reporter/F3/381/381.F3d.404.html

The defendant also argues that § 2332a is an unconstitutional use of Congress's powers under the Commerce Clause.

what could go wrong

Through the lens of GamerGate

IT WAS A GOOF

See now mh's neighb story is what pisses me off about all this. Guy makes one anthrax joke on the phone and gets time in the slammer.

Guys make endless, repeated, direct threats of death and rape to women online here and... nothing? Cops say 'stop looking at it'? People say "trolls wll b trolls"? Fucks sake.

well, he did say this less than one month after someone sent anthrax to people in the US

whereas we're def at 31+ days without incident when it comes to violence against US women. good job USA!

that is... not what I was implying

oh fuck is accuracy the standard for cheap zings now?

wtf

you used violence against women for a cheap zing? not parsing something right here.

The difference between writing something on the internet and calling a 30-year-old national mortgage company and verbally saying something is pretty great. For one thing I'm sure Countrywide has a strict policy about what to do when someone says something like that. Their entire business is based around stability and mitigating risk.

Also LOL at the number 2 result when I googled Countrywide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countrywide_financial_political_loan_scandal

But thats the point, why should it be? Why is it any less punishable on social media?

And for that matter, thats bollocks, given that kid who posted the cop and gun emojis on FB and got arrested for it.

Social media is not reality

because people don't think of words against women as imminent threats and local police are either uninformed, unequipped, or biased

federal action is a decent option and it looks like the FBI is in the loop on some recent cases, especially viable due to the interstate nature of internet threats.

women getting harmed as a result of a direct threat from strangers online should be actionable! but to an extent, local police are right -- harm comes usually from people known to the victim, and they're poorly trained to filter the outliers.

also police are really self-protecting and reactionary, them construing anything other than praise as a threat is kind of their standard.

Social media is not reality

Bullshit.

I think he meant that sarcastically but AB speaks in very strictly worded screeds so idk

Oh ok, if that is so, my apologies. Irony is hard to read on here.

I just mean there is a difference between telling someone personally with your own voice vs. posting a video that reaches a thousand people simultaneously and is admittedly not posted in full faith.

The police are also there to protect moneyed interests, of which a mortgage company is #1. Versus, say, a video game commentator.

Yeah, if it is someone you know you can gauge their intent, with a stranger you can't tell, absent past interaction or public history, whether they are a wackjob who will drive across country to kill you.

Just because twitter has a wide audience does not diminish the fact the threats in question are clearly directed at a specific person!

Not to mention some of the women having gotten privately sent emails/messages/videos of genuine threat. Are they also no real?

No they are definitely real. Maybe I should have said "Not of importance to authority figures" instead.

I mean, look at the writings or Internet comments of any spree shooter. People might say all kinds of shit, but some of them are completely for real, and it's not random citizen's ability to tell which is which.

OK I accept theyre not "real" to the authorities, but that just goes back to the point I was making. They should be.

Is threats over a carriage service not a crime in the US? It is in my country.

offs people.

mh, the zing was cheap in that i understood your intent was not to trivialize non-anthrax threats

The US justice system has a great deal of issues, particularly at the moment. I am putting this extremely lightly.

ah, I rest my arguments

also when I read carriage I thought of a horse and buggy

lol @ "particularly at the moment"